Shipbroking is a financial service, which forms part of the global shipping industry. Shipbrokers are specialist intermediaries/negotiators between shipowners and charterers who use ships to transport cargo, or between buyers and sellers of vessels.
TORM based in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a shipping company that owns and operates product tankers. The Company's product tankers carry refined oil products such as gasoline, jet fuel, naphtha and diesel oil.
BW Group is a maritime company involved in shipping, floating gas infrastructure and deep-water oil & gas production. The company has over 350 vessels managed by an international team of over 7000 staff worldwide. The group was founded by Sir Yue-Kong Pao in Hong Kong in 1955 as World-Wide Shipping. In 2003, the company acquired Bergesen d.y. ASA, Norway's largest shipping company, which was founded in 1935 by Sigval Bergesen the Younger. In 2005, the business was re-branded as BW. With its LNG and LPG fleets combined, BW Group owns and operates the world's largest gas shipping fleet of more than 115 gas vessels, including four FSRUs. Hafnia, a member of the BW Group, operates the world's largest fleet of oil product tankers, and BW Offshore comprises the second largest number of floating oil and gas production units (FPSOs). BW's controlled fleet of over 350 ships also includes crude oil supertankers and dry bulk carriers.
Odfjell SE is a company specialising in worldwide seaborne transportation and storage of chemicals and other speciality bulk liquids. The Odfjell fleet comprises more than 80 ships in total. The ships transport around 600 different kinds of liquids, including organic and inorganic bulk liquid chemicals, acids, animal fats, edible oils, portable alcohols and clean petroleum products. Odfjell’s ships are mainly registered in Norway (NIS) and Singapore, and are primarily manned by Norwegian and Filipino mariners.
American Shipping Company ASA, formerly known as Aker American Shipping ASA, is a Norwegian-American shipping and shipyard company and part of the Aker Group. Aker ASA originally owned 53.2% of the company, and in 2008 reduced its ownership share to 19.9%. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. It was reported in November 2007 that the company has approximately 1,300 employees.
Philly Shipyard, formerly Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, is a commercial shipyard located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on part of the site of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The commercial yard began after the United States Navy had ended most of its operations at the site.
Westfal-Larsen is a group of shipping companies based in Bergen, Norway, owning 20 open hatch ships and 12 chemical tankers.
B+H Ocean Carriers Ltd. is an international shipping company. The company operates seven bulk ships, seven product tankers and two chemical tankers. Based in Hamilton, Bermuda the company also has offices in Oslo, Singapore, Bristol and New York. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange.
Camillo Eitzen & Co is an international shipping company that operates a total of 51 dry bulk, gas tanker and tanker vessels. Including commercial managed and newbuilding ships the group has 136 vessels. The company is controlled by the Eitzen Group (53%), of which it used to be a part of up until 2004. It is based in Oslo, Norway and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Camillo Etizen & Co are also majority owners of Eitzen Chemical and Eitzen Maritime Services.
The J. J. Ugland Companies is a group of shipping companies based in Grimstad, Norway.
Christen Sveaas is a Norwegian businessman, investor, art collector and donor. He is the founder and sole owner of Kistefos AS, Vice Chairman of the Board of the Kistefos Museum and Chairman of the Board of Anders Sveaas Allmennyttige Fond.
Kistefos is a privately owned investment company owned by Christen Sveaas and led by CEO Tom Ruud. The company comprises wholly owned and part-owned industrial companies within offshore, shipping, and IT, as well as strategic investments in various listed and unlisted companies, principally within banking/ finance, telecommunications and property.
Western Bulk is a global dry bulk shipping company operating around 150 vessels in the handysize to panamax category. The headquarter is located in Oslo, and the company has offices in Singapore, Seattle, Santiago and Casablanca.
Dampskibsselskabet Norden A/S is a Danish shipping company operating in the dry cargo and tanker segment worldwide.
British Tanker Company Limited was the maritime transport arm of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the forerunner of BP. Formed in 1915 with an initial fleet of seven oil tankers, the British Tanker Company became the BP Tanker Company in 1955.
BP Shipping is the maritime arm of British headquartered global oil company, BP. The unit covers the marine transport, logistics and insurance requirements of all BP's global activities.
The Libra Group, aka Libra Holdings, is a privately held international conglomerate operating in a variety of industries. As of 2017, it has 30 subsidiaries across six continents, in six sectors: aviation leasing, renewable energy, hotels and hospitality services, real estate, financial services and diversified investments, and shipping.
Algoma Tankers Limited is a subsidiary of Canada's Algoma Central Marine, the country's largest inland shipping company. The firm's fleet has seven vessels, including Algosea, Algonova, Algoma Hansa, AlgoCanada, Algoscotia, and Algoma Dartmouth.
United Shipping & Trading Company (USTC) is a global group of companies headquartered in Middelfart, Denmark. The largest company in the group is Bunker Holding A/S, one of the world's leading companies in bunker trading and the parent company of several autonomous bunker fuel companies around the world.
Teekay is one of the largest shipowners in the world. They specialise in crude oil, LNG and LPG tankers.
